![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But how much of this is actually based on historical fact? There is evidence that Queen Cleopatra was in fact a clever stateswoman and scholar, who spoke multiple languages and successfully governed Egypt for over 20 years, becoming one of the most powerful female rulers in the ancient world.īridget Kendall unpicks Cleopatra fact from fiction with Joyce Tyldesley, Reader in Egyptology at the University of Manchester Maria Wyke, professor of Latin at University College, London and Christian Greco, Director of the Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum) in Turin, Italy. Ptolemy XIII had gone to bed that night a happy lad, secure in the knowledge that his sister, trapped at Pelusium, would be unable to plead her case before Caesar, writes Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley in her book Cleopatra, Last Queen of Egypt (Profile Books, 2008). The Egyptian queen has been portrayed in art and literature as a wily temptress whose devastating beauty seduced two of Rome’s most powerful men or as a ruthless killer who murdered her own relatives to get ahead or as a tragic lover who took her own life using the bite from a poisonous snake. The myths that have grown up around Cleopatra since her eventful reign in the first century BCE are so vivid and alluring that they seem to have taken on a life of their own. ![]()
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